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When you watch a live football match online or join a video call, the platform isn’t sending the entire video at once. The video and audio are broken into small packets of data that continuously flow
Following my recent article on concurrency and parallelism, a natural question comes up: what actually performs the work inside our programs? The answer is threads. Imagine a kitchen where one cook pr
Following my recent article on concurrency and parallelism, a natural question comes up: what actually performs the work inside our programs? The answer is threads. Imagine a kitchen where one cook pr
The core difference between a stack and a queue is simple: a stack follows Last-In, First-Out (LIFO), while a queue follows First-In, First-Out (FIFO). What matters for senior engineers and leaders is
The short answer is no. A few years ago, many people assumed that AI would completely replace developers. Today, it’s becoming clear across the industry that AI is here to enhance developer productivi
Before Meta acquired WhatsApp, its core was built on Erlang/OTP — a language designed for massive concurrency and fault tolerance. Perfect for a global messaging platform. Fun facts: ✔ WhatsApp doesn’
As you grow in tech, your problems shift from syntax to system architecture. Think about WhatsApp — handling 400B+ messages daily. How do you design a system that supports messaging, calls, view-once
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